#chosecommune

[johanna-tagada]

A look inside the book Do Insects Play ?, published in 2019 by Chose Commune.  ‘Do Insects Play?’ is an insight into French artist Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck’s playful and mindful practice, one that is frequently informed by the environment in which she finds herself. The artworks contained in this book are a curated selection of soft and vibrant collages from the ongoing series Cocooning – composed of various found papers, paintings and textiles, along pieces from To End is to Start, a new body of works created out of repurposed cotton fibres and water. The pieces have all been produced during a 2018 – 19 residency in South India where Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck deepened her knowledge and practice of hand papermaking. A short story by the artist is presented alongside the artworks, appearing as a gentle melody dancing throughout the pages.

[johanna-tagada]

[landscape-stories]

LS NEW BOOK                                  

Claudine Doury – Amour

magazine.landscapestories.net

Amour diaries photographer Claudine Doury thirty year quest along the banks of the Amur River in Russia. She journeyed along its banks in 1991, 1997 and 2018, making images that meet together in this book. As generations pass, the surroundings of the river shift and the traditions of the Siberian-descended people – wither.

During her ‘odyssey’, the ties Claudine Doury patiently wove with the families and landscapes around the river translated into powerful and timeless images. Amour brings together her black and white and colour photographs with archival images, and reveals the photographer’s intimate and sensitive relationship with this territory and its history.

‘All they know is that in winter people arrive from the far north on reindeers to buy some bread, but not even the old men know what sort of people they are or where they come from.’

Anton Chekhov, The Island: A journey to Sakhalin, Washington Square Press, 1967

[papasfactory]

ジョアンナ・タガタ 作品展 南インドの布の工場から出たハギレから作った手漉きの紙を使った作品展。 終わりから始まる新たなものがたり。 #repost @totodo_books via @PhotoAroundApp Johanna Tagada - Tamil Diaryは9/28まで開催しています。 写真のコラージュ作品は南インド滞在時に制作されたシリーズ「To End is to Start」です。工場から出る端切を用いた手漉きの紙が使われています。軽やかに、サステナブルな生活を実践する彼女の考え方がよく現れた作品です。会場で上映している短編映画で、制作プロセスの一部を見ることもできます。そして、販売も致しておりますので、どうぞご検討下さい。 新しい作品集『Do Insects Play?』に収録された原画でもあります。 ⠀ [Exhibition] Johanna Tagada - Tamil Diary 31 Aug - 28 Sep mon-sat 12-8pm @johannatagada @chose_commune ⠀ #johannatagada #poeticpastel #chosecommune #75wstudio #totodo https://www.instagram.com/p/B2v40VEl026/?igshid=oh2to9uu97k

[mrgiangyflorence]

Repost from @photographmag using @RepostRegramApp - “Telling it slant” by Julie Cockburn will open on September 12 at @Flowersgallery in London.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The exhibition is organized in conjunction with the release of Stickybeak, the first comprehensive monograph of the artist published by @chosecommune. Through the manipulation of found items and images, Cockburn re-elaborates objects to create a dialogue about identity, gender, modernity, urbanity, and much more. Investigating the stickybeakery, or the peculiarity of human nature to be inquisitive, she says the works in the book, made over a period of twelve years, "began with the search for the perfect image, setting some vaguely rigorous parameters for myself. I selected used postcards, old photographs, foxed bookplates and my own childhood drawings. And each of these foundlings had a different history, an unknown or forgotten story to tell. By submitting to my interventions, they transformed from silent, redundant, orphans into material objects with a regenerated heartbeat."⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Find all the information about the book at the publisher's website chosecommune.com and get ready for the exhibition if you live in #London.⁠⠀ ⁠・⠀ 📷Julie Cockburn, Honeymoon Period, 2015, from Stickybeak, published by Chose Commune, September 2019⁠⠀ ・⁠⠀ #chosecommune #Stickybeak #photobook #flowersgallery #london #photography #JulieCockburn #photographmag https://www.instagram.com/p/B1LbgoloJIA/?igshid=1xeja0fdobu26